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HTC’s ‘Selfie Phone’ Responds to Voice Commands

While smartphones’ front-facing cameras have often been outclassed by those on the rear, recent months have seen a change in this ...

125 Years of Nintendo

Nintendo has celebrated its 125th anniversary. From humble beginnings creating ‘Hanafuda’ playing cards in Kyoto in 1889, the company took 70 ...

Technicolor Result 23/07/15

Technicolor posted first half net profits of €50 million ($55 million), up 21% from €29 million ($32 million) a year ago, ...

Computer Vision With SMI

Epson’s AR Glasses at Siggraph with integrated eye-tracking from SMI. Note the (rather) large brick required to process the data. It’s ...

Apple Has Record Q4 Turnover

Apple announced Q4 net profits of $10.7 billion, up from $9.0 billion in the year-ago quarter, on record turnover of $52.6 ...

HannStar Has Weak December

Hannstar said that its sales were down 1% month on month, 41% year on year, in December at NT$1,216 million ($36.5 ...

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Tarox Offers LG Videoprojectors

by Super User

German distributor, Tarox, is now offering videoprojectors from LG throughout Germany.

Tags:Distributors| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| Projectors| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Sapphire Spreads Across Asia

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Engadget claims that Huawei will release a version of the Ascend P7 smartphone with a sapphire screen. ‘A Huawei rep’ said that the phone would be available in limited quantities in China, beginning in …

Tags:China| Huawei| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

DisplaySearch: LG Display Has Begun iWatch Production

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NPD DisplaySearch’s Charles Annis believes that LG Display is ramping up production of 1.3″ and 1.5″ OLED displays, in preparation for Apple’s iWatch launch. In a blog post (http://tinyurl.com/oskvp46), Annis writes that the displays …

Tags:AMOLED| Flexible Displays| Mobile Display Monitor| NPD DisplaySearch| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Prelonic’s Digital Display is Printed on Paper

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Germany’s Prelonic has devised a top-indicative electrochromic (EC) display, which can be printed on paper or cardboard. A bottom-indicative display appears behind the substrate – they have previously been developed on transparent materials like …

Tags:Electrochromic Displays| Flexible Displays| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Microsoft ‘Solves’ Cloud Latency for Gaming

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A white paper by Microsoft Research details a way to lower latency in cloud gaming, using a project called Delorean. In cloud gaming, very little processing is done on the user’s device. Instead, a …

Tags:Cloud Computing| Game Playing| Large Display Monitor| Microsoft| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Acer Kicks off IFA in Bullish Mode

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Acer was the first press conference and CEO Jason Chen started by saying that sales in Germany were double in Q2 2014 and in Austria, it was closer to 3X business. Chen said that …

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ITRI Lowers Touch Production Costs

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The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) showcased a new metal mesh production technology at Touch Taiwan last month. The technology is said to feature a ‘one-step’ roll-to-roll method, which can apparently lower production costs …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Metal Mesh| Roll to Roll (R2R)| Touch Taiwan 2014| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Emerging Markets Take Smartphone Slack

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Smartphone shipments are expected to rise 23.8% YoY in 2014, according to IDC, to more than 1.25 billion units, from 1.01 billion in 2013. A 12.7% CAGR will lead to 1.8 billion shipments in …

Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| Smartphone Market| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21| Worldwide

Dell Widens Gamut and Size

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A 2015 version of Dell’s Ultrasharp U2414H (Display Monitor Vol 20 No 38) has appeared on the company’s Chinese website. While similar to last year’s product, the display on the U2415H has been changed. …

Tags:Colour Critical Monitors| Dell| Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

Hannstar’s Sales & Shipments Down In August

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Hannstar Display said that sales and shipments both declined last month, with revenue for the month 1.7% lower than July and 32.8% down year on year at NT$1.8 billion ($60 million). Sales for the …

Tags:Hannstar (Hannspree)| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Samsung Display Hides Away

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Samsung Display had a private area in Hall 14 and we went around to see the range of products. Showing where the priorities lie for the local sales people in the Display business, we …

Tags:IFA 2014| Large Display Monitor| Samsung| TVs (TV Sets)| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Digital TV Labs’ Test Suite Checks Compliance

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Digital TV Labs is launching products designed to accelerate the development and deployment of UltraHD HEVC services. The organisation’s HEVC for DVB Test Suite enables SoC, STB and TV vendors to check their products’ …

Tags:4k| DTV| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Testing| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21